Chapter 46 Emptying Out the Enemy's House and Marrying the Bully 2
My daughter used to be very innocent and didn't have many tricks up her sleeve.
As for severing ties, she would definitely not agree. Feelings are in the hearts of family members, not on a piece of paper. Preserving the whole family is what really matters.
After a quick dinner, Ning's father called his daughter, and they went out the door with their bicycles.
The Ning family had produced high-ranking officials in their ancestors; otherwise, they wouldn't have become famous merchants after the fall of the Qing Dynasty. Later, they contributed a lot to the War of Resistance against Japan and became well-known patriotic merchants.
Although most of the Ning family's assets were handed over after the founding of the People's Republic of China, who wouldn't keep a backup plan?
Soon the father and son arrived at the first treasure location.
"This house is registered under your third uncle's name. He went missing on the battlefield, and Dad never reported his death, which is why this house was able to remain."
Dad usually keeps all the grains, rice, and flour he's saved up in this basement.
The father and son went into the yard and removed a brick from the stove, revealing a downward staircase in the middle of the kitchen.
It took more than twenty steps to reach the bottom. Looking around, all that could be seen were large water vats, each taller than a person. The vats were covered with lids that looked perfectly sealed, and they must have been filled with grain.
On the shelves next to it were a lot of brown sugar, white sugar, milk powder, milk candy, fruit candy, as well as hanging sausages and cured meat, and even several large bags of salt.
"Dad, you take those, I'll take the grain."
Ning's father didn't stand on ceremony. His wife's health wasn't very good, and she couldn't survive without nutrition. As for the milk powder, it was just a matter of mixing it with water, so he naturally wanted to keep it all.
Anyway, my daughter has everything she needs, and if she runs out of things, she can just buy them with money.
The father and daughter walked by like locusts, and the basement was emptied in no time.
The father and daughter came out, locked the secret room again, and headed straight for the outskirts of the city.
"This is our old house. But after Liberation, the house was divided up by the landlords. Part of it became the production brigade, part became a primary school, and part became a threshing ground. All the good stuff was hidden in the threshing ground. Be careful."
Things changed quickly back then, and things in the house could easily be discovered by someone with ulterior motives. He had to hide them in different places. The warehouse under the threshing floor was where he hid his treasures. No one would have guessed that there were so many treasures under that big grain bin.
The father and son went in quickly and came out quickly as well. Ning Yan's main goal was to pack up her things and leave without caring what was inside.
The two then went straight to the textile factory.
He is still the deputy director of the textile factory, but nobody knows that there is a lot of good stuff hidden in the factory's storeroom.
The father and daughter propped their bicycles up the wall and rode them up the wall, then followed the wall to the storage room.
The old lock was opened, and Ning's father pulled Ning Yan inside.
These things used to be safe here, but now that we have our daughter's jade pendant, there's nowhere safer to put them in her hands. She can take them anywhere she goes.
Seeing that her father was about to move a pile of clutter in the corner, Ning Yan quickly stepped forward, "Dad, let me do it." How long would it take to move it like this?
Ning's father stepped aside, and with a wave of her hand, Ning Yan made all the clutter on the shelves in the corner disappear.
Ning's father stepped forward, pried a few bricks off the ground, and then reached out and moved them, revealing a round hole. There was an iron cover under the hole. He opened the iron cover using a special method, revealing a dark hole inside.
"Wait a minute, there are no ventilation openings down there, we'll run out of oxygen."
After waiting for about fifteen minutes, Ning's father, holding a flashlight, led Ning Yan into the basement.
Ning Yan put the more than one hundred boxes directly into her spatial storage, then restored the entrance to its original state, rearranged the miscellaneous items she had stored in her space, locked the door, and left.
Back home, Ning's father instructed Ning Yan, "What we collected today are mostly things passed down from our ancestors. At the threshing ground, most of them were gold, silver, jade, and jewelry. Those things were valuable back then, so I hid them all in places where they could be seen."
The textile factory mainly sells calligraphy, paintings, and porcelain. These items aren't worth much now, but that might change in a few decades.
Don't mention these things to anyone. Our family's future depends on them.
He hadn't told his wife anything, not because he didn't trust her, but because a secret isn't a secret if too many people know it. Sometimes not knowing is a form of protection.
Ning Yan naturally nodded in agreement; she wasn't stupid.
In the kitchen, Ning's mother was making steaming hot buns filled with cured pork. Ning Yan ate one and then went to help in the kitchen. She wanted to make more now so that it would be convenient to eat them later. When they got to the countryside, they would have to be careful not to let others smell the aroma.
Only half of the rice and flour in the kitchen has been made; it looks like no one will be able to sleep tonight.
Based on the events of the previous life, there are still two days before Ning's parents are sent to the countryside. Two days is enough time.
Fortunately, the Ning family had plenty of firewood and pots. The three of them worked until morning before they could rest. After a nap, the father and daughter set off separately, each going their own way, all with the goal of preparing supplies.
Ning Yan went there today specifically for cotton fabrics and yarn, while her father brought back a lot of refined grains, whole grains, and various kinds of meat.
I only went home after I ran out of tickets.
That evening, Ning's father whispered to Ning Yan, "I went out today to pull some strings and found out that it was Old Xu who reported our family. I've been promoting him all this time, but he wants to kill me. It just so happens that the two of us will go to his house tonight."
I bought sleeping pills.
Ning Yan: ...So this is what kind of father you are.
Old Xu was the workshop director of the textile factory. He joined the factory when it was being expanded. He had an honest and simple appearance and was always respectful and obedient to Ning's father. Everyone thought he was Ning's father's best confidant, and the two families even had the idea of marriage between them.
Old Xu's son, Xu Hongjun, is two years older than Ning Yan, and is twenty years old this year. He also has an eighteen-year-old daughter, Xu Xuejuan. The three of them usually get along quite well, so who would have thought that this confidant would betray Ning's father?
The father and daughter didn't leave until midnight. The Ning family's house was a detached two-story building. The Xu family's house was not too far from the Ning family's house; their house was just a small courtyard with four rooms.
Ning's father jumped into the yard first and blew the sleeping pills through the crack in the door. He didn't open the gate until nearly fifteen minutes later.
After prying open the door, Ning's father pointed inside and said, "Go ahead and collect it. I'll come and see if they've hidden anything good."
After all, Ning's father was quite skilled at hiding things.
Ning Yan nodded and collected whatever she saw inside the house. When she entered the bedroom of the Xu couple, she noticed something unusual.
One wall next to the wardrobe was empty.
She quickly went to call Ning's father. Ning's father discovered that the wall had been hollowed out, filled with something, and then sealed shut. There were no mechanisms. He raised his fist to smash it, but Ning Yan quickly stopped him and handed him a pair of gloves. Ning's father put on the gloves and punched down, breaking a hole in the wall and revealing what was inside.
(End of this chapter)
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